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A Large-Scale Multi-Lingual Color Thesaurus
  DOI :  10.2352/CIC.2012.20.1.art00006  Published OnlineJanuary 2012
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We present a color thesaurus with over 9000 color names in ten different languages. Instead of using conventional psychophysical experiments, we use a statistical framework that is based on search results from Google Image Search. For each color name we compute a significance distribution in CIELAB space whose maximum indicates the location of the color name in CIELAB. A first analysis discusses the quality of the estimations in the context of human language. Further, we conduct an advanced analysis supporting our choice to use a statistical method. Finally, we demonstrate that a color name mainly depends on the chromatic values and varies more along the lightness axis.

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Albrecht Lindner, Bryan Zhi Li, Nicolas Bonnier, Sabine Süsstrunk, "A Large-Scale Multi-Lingual Color Thesaurusin Proc. IS&T 20th Color and Imaging Conf.,  2012,  pp 30 - 35,  https://doi.org/10.2352/CIC.2012.20.1.art00006

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